What did it take to get that perfect shot on your last trip? If you’re National Geographic photographer Steve Winter, you probably risked your life and the trip was no vacation. We’ll talk with Winter this hour about his work photographing tigers and rhinos and his piece “India’s Grassland Kingdom” which appears in the August, 2010 issue of National Geographic Magazine.
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Do you lose sleep the night before the launch of the newest addictive gadget? Can you envision your very own 3D camera recording your next family celebration? We’ll discuss the latest consumer-grade technologies, the next big must-have contraptions, and the nasty competition for industry dominance with Victor Godinez, technology reporter for the Dallas Morning News. Which North Texas bands are on the verge of breaking out? KXT host Paul Slavens joins us for the Art&Seek segment. He’ll survey the local music scene and talk about his own new CD, “Alphabet Girls Vol. 1” (2010).
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What does it take to raise kids with learning or other differences? We’ll spend this hour with Patricia Konjoian, parent and co-author of the book “Shut Up About Your Perfect Kid: A Survival Guide for Ordinary Parents of Special Children” (Three Rivers Press, Paperback, 2010).
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What’s going on at the Trinity River Audubon Center? We’ll talk this hour with Chris Culak, Director of the Trinity River Audubon Center. He’ll speak at Valley House Gallery’s Salon Series tonight at 7pm.
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How has knowledge of the human genome changed our perception of the world and how is it influencing agriculture, energy and other important fields of study? We’ll talk this hour with veteran science journalist Victor K. McElheny author of “Drawing the Map of Life: Inside the Human Genome Project” (Basic Books, 2010).
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What will ultimately be the most dramatic effect of climate change? We’ll discuss what a massive sea level rise would mean for humankind this hour with species extinction expert and University of Washington professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences, Peter D. Ward. His new book is “The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps” (Basic Books, 2010).
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How can a pathogen infect 500 million and kill nearly a million each year when we know how to control it? We’ll talk this hour with Sonia Shah who tells the story of this deadly parasite in her new book “The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010).
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How is the field of Women’s Studies changing and how has it informed and influenced fields like African American, Latino, and Queer Studies among others? We’ll talk this hour with professor and director of the TWU Ph.D. in Women??s Studies Program, AnaLouise Keating, Ph.D.
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What’s behind the rapid recent growth of the concealed and open-carry handgun movements? We’ll talk this hour with Dan Baum, Harper’s Magazine contributor about his August issue cover story “Happiness Is A Worn Gun: My Concealed Weapon and Me.”
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From the archives – What does an increasing population mean for the future of the United States? We’ll revisit our March conversation with social demographer and urban historian Joel Kotkin, whose book “The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050” (The Penguin Press, 2010) is the subject of this week’s Dallas Morning News Points Summer Book Club.
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What does Arizona’s S.B. 1070 mean for the rest of the country? We’ll examine the similar 2008 Prince William County, Virginia law and the fallout it caused this hour with Eric Byler, co-director of the documentary “9500 Liberty” which opens at the Angelika Film Center in Dallas this weekend.
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What are the different roles played by zoos and are they important enough to justify life-long captivity of animals? What’s life really like inside a zoo? We’ll talk this hour with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas French who spent six years researching and reporting for his latest work “Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives” (Hyperion, 2010).
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